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Kuryakin

About Me

Petter and Johan has been making music under the name Kuryakin since 2003. They met at the university in Uppsala 2002. Petter nowadays live in Stockholm and Johan in Uppsala. The music is put together by Petter and Johan who mails samples and ideas to eachother and then play toghether a few times a month.

We are currently working on a full length album for Fastcut Records.

Our Shelflife release Still Here EP+7" can be bought at www.shelflife.com

The Fought A War EP is avalible from Fastcut Records

More info can be found at our homepage here!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/26/2006
Band Website: lostminds.com/~kuryakin
Band Members: Petter Gjöres (vocals, guitar, computers) Johan Norberg (guitar, computers)
Influences: Prefab Sprout, Sunshine pop and Soft Rock like The Free Design, the songs by Roger Nichols, Curt Boettcher and Jimmy Webb, Carpenters, America, Bread, The Association, Bob Lind, Mark Eric, Todd Rundgren, 10cc, Scott Walker and many other artists, Saint Etienne, Marcos Valle, Carole King, Cornelius, Junior Boys, Evie Sands, The Sundays, Eggstone, Aztec Camera, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Cocteau Twins, The Wake, Michael Jackson, Scritti Politti, Trash Can Sinatras, The Divine Comedy, The Avalanches, Kraftwerk, Vashti Bunyan, Philly soul and other smooth soul of the 70's, Colin Blunstone, Kenny Rankin, Duncan Browne, Larry Heard, Carl Craig, Pet Shop Boys, Burt Bacharach, Hiphop, Janet Jackson, The-Dream, Ne-Yo, Jermaine Dupri, Polow Da Don, Ryan Leslie and many other things
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Myspace Bandstand

We got rather surprised a few days ago when we were contacted by the Swedish myspace section informing that we were one out of three other bands who had won a place in the myspace spotlight "bandstand...
Posted by Kuryakin on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:00:00 PST

Parker Lewis Remix

A remix we made last summer for Parker Lewis has finally been released. It can be found on www.madforit.se together with the fantastic Parker Lewis song "Hjältar", and another Parker Lewis remix by Ka...
Posted by Kuryakin on Fri, 02 May 2008 03:01:00 PST